The Internet fills up most of our free time. We read the news, communicate and learn. Each of us finds here what he lacks in reality. And while the Internet has its downsides, it's hard to deny that it has made our lives much easier and helped us cope with many problems.
RuNet is a huge community that allows everyone and everyone to find the information they need and answers to their questions. Russian search engines are a working tool for many of us. The main thing is to use the search engine correctly.
What is this?
A search engine is an Internet service that aims to find the necessary information throughout the network. The user himself and his key request directly participate in this process. To find the information you need, you need to open a web browser and formulate a query in the search bar. Algorithms are updated every year, so for a correct search, you do not need to write a lot of words and sentences. It is enough to choose the most appropriate definitions.
Now alreadyit's hard to imagine how difficult it would be without Russian search engines. We could not find an interesting movie, the author of a book, or a favorite song. Not to mention how difficult it would be to work and study.
How does the system work?
Before understanding the rankings of Russian search engines, you need to understand how they work and why some of them are becoming more popular.
You opened a web browser, entered keywords into the search box and started searching. At this time, the algorithms begin to scan all sites, then indexing and ranking takes place.
The search engine starts by simply wandering through web pages and exploring them. Of course, now there are already countless sites on the Internet, which means that the scope of work is incredibly huge. But the search engine copes in a matter of seconds, which means it works at lightning speed.
Robots are responsible for scanning, which are popularly called "spiders" (a reference to the World Wide Web). There are many of them, so they distribute work and visit all sites. From there, they enter the information into a database. It is further classified by topic so that the next access is easier. This is how indexing occurs.
At the last stage, robots work with ranking. They rank all sites according to how much their data matches the key request.
List of Russian search engines
There are many search engines on the territory of the Russian Federation. Some of them were born on the territory of the state, others wereadapted to the needs of the Russians. The most popular are:
- Yandex.
- Google.
- Mail.ru.
- Rambler.
- Bing.
This is the main five, the leaders of which are the first two search engines. All the rest are used or were used in RuNet in one way or another, but have a small percentage of the share.
Yandex
In the ranking of the main Russian search engines, Yandex takes the first place. This is a Russian multinational company registered in the Netherlands. It has a search engine of the same name, an Internet portal, and services in several countries. At the end of 2018, Alexa ranked Yandex 21st in the world and 1st in Russia.
The system first started working in 1997. After 3 years, it was decided to create an independent company. The system is developing most actively in Russia, Turkey, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Previously popular in Ukraine before it was blocked in the country.
How Yandex works
The Russian search engine allows you to use many languages for searching, in particular, Russian, Tatar, Ukrainian, Belarusian, etc. By default, Yandex displays 10 results on each search results page, but this can be configured.
As in any search engine, this one periodically changes the issuance algorithm. This is where changes in ranking come from: some sites may change their position in the top of the issue. Experts say that changes are not always beneficial.
Last majorthe change took place in 2010. Then a new technology was launched that took into account needs that were not explicitly formulated in the user's request. For example, if you search for "Pushkin", the search engine will give you his biography, works and even films with that name.
At one time, "Yandex" pointed out the restrictions under which it would not index the site. One of the most significant requirements was to the uniqueness of the content. It is imperative that it is not copied or rewritten from other resources.
Now it is the largest search engine in the world. In Runet, it is in second place, but it is also in demand among Russians. It handles more than 41 billion queries per month and has over 25 billion web pages in the index.
Google is hard to call a Russian search engine, but Google.ru adapts to Runet. That is why the search engine logo often changes in honor of some holiday. For example, on June 12, together with the country, he celebrates the Day of Russia, and a special symbol was developed for the opening of the Olympic Games in Sochi.
The company was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, although the domain itself was registered a year earlier.
How Google works
There is more than one search robot in the system. Now there are five main assistants who are engaged in scanning certain sites. For example, Googlebot-Mobile indexes sites for mobile devices, while Googlebot-Image works with images.
Robots willvs low quality pages:
- with non-unique content;
- with negative user behavior;
- misspelled;
- no page links;
- with an incomprehensible design.
Mail.ru
In the list of Russian Internet search engines one cannot do without Poisk@Mail. Ru. Of course, this search engine is significantly inferior to the previous two and occupies only 2.% in Runet in 2018, although in 2013 this figure was 9.2%.
For a long time, the Mail.ru service used Google for search, then switched to Yandex, and only in 2013 began to own its own search technologies. But since 2010, developers have had to rely on Google for support anyway.
This search engine gained popularity due to a large number of related services of the corporation. Many who use Odnoklassniki, My World or the service's mail also use a search engine.
The principle of operation of "Search@Mail. Ru"
In 2013, the technology of a "manual" ranking mechanism appeared. Optimizers now have the ability to independently add a query or document to be indexed into the system. This way of promoting resources helped them to qualitatively and organically integrate into the search results.
Rambler
Rambler is another Russian search engine. It is a popular media service portal. The system started working back in 1996, but now it is slowly starting to give way to more eminent services.
To be fair, Rambler can no longer be called a search engine, since it does not work according to its own algorithms. It ceased to exist as a search engine back in 2011, but many Russians still use the portal as a search engine, but not everyone knows that it works thanks to Yandex.
Bing
This search engine ranks fifth in terms of use in Runet. The system was developed by Microsoft, so it can hardly be called Russian. It has been operating under its current name since 2009. Previously, the search engine occupied a share of 1% in Runet, but now there is information that it is blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation. Accordingly, the statistics will gradually decrease, and Bing will gradually leave the rankings.
Other options
There are a large number of Russian Internet search engines. Many don't know anything about them, which is why they have low visitor rates.
For example, "Nigma" is considered the most intelligent search engine, operating since 2004. It uses its own algorithms, and also uses data from other search engines. There were no official announcements about the closure of the project, but in 2017 the site became unavailable. Until that moment, he had a share of 0.1% in Runet.
Sputnik is a search engine of Rostelecom. It has been working since 2014, but after 3 years it was recognized as unsuccessful. Sputnik offers other services besides searching for information, but they are also not very popular.
Aport is a previously known search engine that has been operating since 1996. At one time, it was actively used, and in 2000 the search engine occupied a leading position on a par with Yandex and Google. The developers were very enthusiastic in implementing the "chips" and working on the design.
In 2011, Aport switched to the Yandex engine, after which it began to fail. The search engine has ceased to be perceived as usual. Now the system works only with the catalog of goods. If you need to find a product, you can enter its name, and the service will collect data on it from all stores, indicate prices and compare them.
